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Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition

Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition is one of a series of NES games based on the famous TV game show. The goal is to solve a word puzzle by guessing letters. The players take turns spinning a wheel that has…

1 March 1990

Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition is a puzzle developed by Rare, released 1 March 1990 on Nintendo Entertainment System.

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What Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition is

Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition is a puzzle game developed by Rare and released in 1990. It was published by GameTek, Inc.. It is available on Nintendo Entertainment System only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition is one of a series of NES games based on the famous TV game show. The goal is to solve a word puzzle by guessing letters. The players take turns spinning a wheel that has designated money amounts in most spaces, but can also bankrupt the player in the wheel lands on the wrong space. A player can guess a letter and if that letter is in the puzzle, those spaces are flipped to reveal the letter and the player earns the cash amount specified by the wheel spin, multiplied by the number of occurrences of the letter. Only English consonants can be guessed-- the 5 English vowels can be purchased using a player's earnings.
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are party. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Wheel of Fortune series

Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition is the seventh of 49 entries we hold in the Wheel of Fortune series. The next entry was Wheel of Fortune in 1990.

See all 49 Wheel of Fortune games in release order →

What it launched against

Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition launched on 1 March 1990, within three weeks of Nemesis and Target Earth.

Released around the same time: Nemesis, Target Earth.

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When did Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition come out?
Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition was released on 1 March 1990 for Nintendo Entertainment System.

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